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On the Revision of the International System of Units (SI)

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The International System of Units (SI) was adopted at the 11th meeting of the General Conference of Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1960, and is a natural outgrowth of the metric system that originated in the 1700s. During this first phase, the SI system consisted of six fundamental units: the kilogram, meter, second, ampere, kelvin, and candela, with another fundamental unit – the mole – being added in 1971. …

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go back to reference D. B. Newell et al., “The CODATA 2017 values of h, e, k and NA for the revision of the SI,” Metrologia, 55, No. 1, L13–L16 (2018). D. B. Newell et al., “The CODATA 2017 values of h, e, k and NA for the revision of the SI,” Metrologia, 55, No. 1, L13–L16 (2018).
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Title
On the Revision of the International System of Units (SI)
Publication date
01-11-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Measurement Techniques / Issue 5/2019
Print ISSN: 0543-1972
Electronic ISSN: 1573-8906
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-019-01647-5

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